[ddots-l] Re: cds
- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:37:55 -0700
Thanks! I knew it was better to burn slower, but didn't really know the
relationship to errors and error-correction.
Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Smart" <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 09:28
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: cds
Chris, the sad thing now is that pretty much all of them are equally
garbage.
The quality of the disks seems to matter more than the burner.
Even so, between the disks and burners, you're bound to get some errors on
the disk. For audio, there is error correction that hides a lot of it when
you listen on a regular CD player, but a disk like that won't do for a
mastering house.
Best strategy is to get high quality disks, and to resist the urge to burn
at high speeds. The main way that the burners suck now regards tracking.
Higher speeds makes it harder for them to track the CDR (kind of like
cutting a groove in a record), and bad tracking results in errors. Burning
at insane speeds like 40X, 52X, etc is only good for quick test demos. You
might not hear glitches right away, but they almost always are there. I
think that most every burner can handle 4X with good media, so that is a
good speed for disks that matter, but where you don't need to be paranoid.
If I were recording a disk to serve as a master, I'd use 1X.
Yes; disks burned at higher speeds will play, but remember that you're
depending on the error correction to fix up the sound. The problem with
that, outside of burning masters, is that, when you start off with errors,
any physical damage to the disk will result in lots of playback glitches,
since the error correction is already working over time to make everything
sound right. An error free disk can take a scratch or smudge, and keep on
playing.
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Smart
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 10:07 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: cds
Hi PHil.
Just curious, what make is your burner?
Traditionally, I've heard great things about Plextor, but have never owned
one. I've been using the same Samsung for five years now.
Chris
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